On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission held a Public Comment Session on Antisemitism on America’s College and University Campuses:
The investigation will examine how institutions of higher education and the federal government responded to allegations of antisemitism on U.S. college and university campuses in violation of federal civil rights protections.
I appeared by telephone via WebEx. Amanda Stulman, Legal Insurrection Foundation Senior Researcher, appeared in person at the hearing to discuss Intersectionality. We will be posting her testimony soon.
Public testimony was limited to three minutes. Here is my presentation:
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I appreciate the opportunity to provide testimony to the Commission, and I appreciate the fact that you have subjected this topic to discussion.I am a Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. I am also the president and founder of the Equal Protection Project.I have studied antisemitism on campuses through my websites going back close to 20 years. This is not a new problem.This is a problem which has developed over time and is a direct outgrowth of the international Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, which started as an anti-Jewish boycott in the British mandate of Palestine, then morphed into an anti-Jewish boycott from the Arab League. Many people think of that as an anti-Israel boycott, but it started as an anti-Jewish boycott, even before Israel became into being. It was then repackaged at the turn of the century, in the early 2000s, as a social justice movement because the boycott was failing.Everything emanates from that.This is a concerted effort to demonize Jews, and anti-Zionism is now the stalking horse for that.At the same time that the boycott of Jews was repackaged as social justice, other developments happened on campuses that made matters worse. There has been a purge on campuses at the faculty level of two groups.The first is conservative. It is very difficult to find an openly conservative professor, certainly on any elite campuses. Certainly on my campus. I end up serving as the faculty advisor to almost every right of center student group because there literally is no other professor on campus who will do it. And that’s in a campus with a faculty of over 2000 faculty members.At the same time, there had been a purge of openly pro-Israel faculty. That’s why you find in Jewish Studies departments and you find in Israel Studies departments near unanimity of anti-Zionism and hostility to Israel.There are no faculty voices or very few to speak up for Jewish students on campuses, and that is a profound problem.The campuses, unfortunately, are incapable of reforming themselves because there is no internal opposition left, and therefore, I applaud the Commission and I applaud the Trump administration for subjecting the campuses to scrutiny because they deserve it.They cannot self scrutinize and they cannot self reform.Thank you very much.
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